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Cobb’s Pond Rotary Park (Photo Credit-Tom Cochrane) Gander Lake (Photo Credit-Tom Cochrane)

Aviation Museum (Photo Credit-Tom Cochrane) Golf Course (Photo Credit-Tom Cochrane)

“Today, Gander is a vital transportation, service, and retail hub

for Central-East Newfoundland, and, thanks to a prescient Town

Council, is a town well prepared for this role to continue long into
the future.”

Gander, Percy Farwell, tells Business Elite Canada. importance of sustainability as a community both

“And as a major service center service hub for a economically, environmentally, and socially.”

large population in the central part of the province,
Gander has made some great strides infrastructure With every opportunity it’s important to measure

and services and it's been rewarded by the retail out the associated challenges, and with population

sector gravitating to the town.” growth comes increased demands on housing,
something Town Council is focused on.

The Town Council works diligently to maintain

quality infrastructure throughout the community “We're excited about Gander’s growth but if you're
quality services. “We want to be a safe community, trying to be proactive and stay ahead of things,

diverse, inclusive, and progressive,” says Farwell, then you have to start planning and moving,” says
“all those things that we take a lot of that pride Farwell. “I'm thinking about how as a community

in. We also take great care to be conscious of the you can take advantage of those things.”

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